The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare
A Tale of Forgery and Folly
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand wh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-306-81900-1
- EAN: 9780306819001
- Produktnummer: 22909323
- Verlag: Hachette Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'265 KB
Über den Autor
Doug Stewart frequently writes about history and the arts for Smithsonian magazine. A freelance journalist, his articles have also appeared in Time, Discover, and Reader's Digest. He lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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